session-keyring(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual session-keyring(7) session-keyring - The session keyring is a keyring used to anchor keys on behalf of a process. It is typically created by pam_keyinit(8) when a user logs in and a link will be added that refers to the user-keyring(7). Optionally, PAM(7) may revoke the session keyring on logout. (In typical configurations, PAM does do this revocation.) The session keyring has the name (description) _ses. , KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING, . keyctl(1) <<@s>> . clone(2), fork(2) vfork(2). execve(2), set-user-ID set-group-ID . . , , user-session-keyring(7), ( user-session-keyring(7)). keyutils : keyctl_join_session_keyring(3) , . (), <<>> <<_ses>> ( keyctl(2) KEYCTL_JOIN_SESSION_KEYRING). keyctl_session_to_parent(3) . ( keyctl(2) KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT). keyctl(1): keyctl session keyctl session - [<> <1> <2> ] keyctl session <> [<> <1> <2> ] keyctl new_session . keyctl(1), keyctl(3), keyctl_join_session_keyring(3), keyctl_session_to_parent(3), keyrings(7), PAM(7), persistent-keyring(7), process-keyring(7), thread-keyring(7), user-keyring(7), user-session-keyring(7), pam_keyinit(8) Alexander Golubev , Azamat Hackimov , Hotellook, Nikita , Spiros Georgaras , Vladislav , Yuri Kozlov ; GNU 3 , . . , , . Linux man-pages 6.06 31 2023 . session-keyring(7)